Cheshire, Connecticut is a small town located in New Haven County with a population of around 29,700 residents. Politics in the town are traditionally moderate to conservative and remain fairly consistent due to its relatively stable population. The town is run by a five-member Town Council elected by the people of Cheshire every two years, and the mayor is also elected by the citizens. Currently, the Republican Party holds a majority on the Town Council and both state legislators for Cheshire are Republicans as well. Federal representation is provided by Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal and Democratic Representative Rosa DeLauro. In addition, several local political organizations exist in Cheshire, such as the Republican Town Committee and the Cheshire Democratic Town Committee. These groups often work together to discuss issues of importance to the local community before presenting them to Town Council for discussion and possible decision making.
The political climate in Zip 06410 (Cheshire, CT) is leaning liberal.
New Haven County, CT is moderately liberal. In New Haven County, CT 58.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, New Haven county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.0% to 40.6%.
New Haven county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 06410 (Cheshire, CT) is leaning liberal.
Cheshire, Connecticut is leaning liberal.
New Haven County, Connecticut is moderately liberal.
New Haven-Milford Metro Area is moderately liberal.
Connecticut is moderately liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Cheshire, Connecticut: D D D D D D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 06410 (Cheshire)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,875 contributions totaling $433,438 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $112 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 327 contributions totaling $91,698 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $280 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)